Sunday, November 11, 2012

Nobel Laureate Soyinka on Islam in UK

From Abdallah: "this is the same guy who, after the Christmas Day terror attempt, said the UK is
a "cesspit" because of its tolerance of different religions proselytizing
openly:

Mr Soyinka, 76, who was born in Nigeria and studied at
Leeds University in the 1950s, said: “England is a cesspit. England is the
breeding ground of fundamentalist Muslims.”He added: “Its social logic is to
allow all religions to preach openly. But this is illogic, because none of
the other religions preach apocalyptic violence. And yet England allows
it.Remember, that country was the breeding ground for communism, too.
Karl Marx did all his work in libraries there."Mr Soyinka said Britain
took pride in its “openness” and added: "I doubt you can have the kind of
indoctrination schools in America as you do in the UK…The Muslims there are
open Muslims, whereas in Europe they tend to go into ghetto
schools.”During a lecture at the Jaipur Literature Festival in India, he
told the audience: “We should assemble all those who are pure and cannot abide
other faiths, put them all in rockets, and fire them into
space."

But he admitted that the “disease” of radical Islam
had reached Nigeria with the recent clashes in Jos."A virus has
attacked the world of sense and sensibility, and it has spread to Nigeria,” he
added.Mr Soyinka put the origins of the problem with the fatwa [religious
ruling] by the Ayatollah Khomeini of Iran against the author Salman Rushdie in
1989."It all began when he assumed the power of life and death over the life
of a writer. This was a watershed between doctrinaire aggression and physical
aggression. There was an escalation. The assumption of power over life and death
then passed to every single inconsequential Muslim in the world—as if someone
had given them a new stature."Al Qaeda is the descendent of this phenomenon.
The proselytization of Islam became vigorous after this. People went to Saudi
Arabia. Madrassas were established everywhere."Mr Soyinka, the son of a
Christian clergyman, worked at the Royal Court Theatre in London after
university. He is a cousin of the Nigerian musician Fela Kuti, who was studying
music in London around the same time."

Comic by Terry Furry, reproduced from "Heard the One About the Funny Leftist?" by Cris Thompson, East Bay Express

As'ad's Bio

As'ad AbuKhalil, born March 16, 1960. From Tyre, Lebanon, grew up in Beirut. Received his BA and MA from American University of Beirut in pol sc. Came to US in 1983 and received his PhD in comparative government from Georgetown University. Taught at Tufts University, Georgetown University, George Washington University, Colorado College, and Randolph-Macon Woman's College. Served as a Scholar-in-Residence at Middle East Institute in Washington DC. He served as free-lance Middle East consultant for NBC News and ABC News, an experience that only served to increase his disdain for maintream US media. He is now professor of political science at California State University, Stanislaus. His favorite food is fried eggplants.

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